William James Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

  William James

  Letting Go, Real, Trying

• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

  William James

  Life, Inspiration, Purpose

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

• Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Passion

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Courier Corporation

• Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

  William James

  Technology, Order, Purpose

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.576, Courier Corporation

• Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

  William James

  Purpose, Way, Particular

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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